YMMV / Timespinner

• Complacent Gaming Syndrome: Power-leveling a single orb can lead to this. It means your spells and attacks with that orb will reach a point of one-hit killing virtually everything in the game. The fact that Nightmare Mode does nothing to limit your Orb levels means that you can simply get one orb over level 200 and breeze through the game with it.
• Game-Breaker:
  • The Sun Ring, which causes Regenerating Health. Getting Lunais' health high enough and using this ring means restoring 35+ points of health every few seconds. If you get enough Health-Ups or levels in general, you can even afford to stop dodging, as you can kill bosses faster than they can kill you.
  • The Radiant Orb causes a burst of light energy as an area-of-effect attack as its basic move. Enemies with shields can't block it, quite a few enemies are weak to it, and aim isn't much of an issue.
  • Bombardment, which does triple the damage for each individual hit as a solid hit from the Shattered Orb, and hits multiple times at close range, like a shotgun blast of lunar fragments. With a high-level Shattered Orb, Bombardment will do tremendous damage to your enemies and easily blow away bosses with the damage it does, the only enemies that can withstand it having damage resistance to the Shattered Orb's element in the first place.
• Good Bad Bugs: The necklace/spell Djinn's Fire has an Aura consumption glitch, where if you charge and fire it off at a fast enough rate, every casting after the first will not consume your Aura reserves. It's such an easy bug to trigger that many Timespinner races are organized with this bug allowed since it's harder to avoid triggering the bug than to just permit it.
• It's Short, So It Sucks!: A common criticism of the game is that it can be cleared in approximately 8–9 hours, including optional content. This leaves those who enjoy the game wanting more.
• LGBT Fanbase: Nearly all of the heroes are some kind of sexuality besides heterosexual. Lunais herself is bisexual with a preference for women, and notes that polyamory was rather common in her village.
• Overshadowed by Controversy: Outside of the fanbase, Timespinner is known more for the debates it sparked about how well it handles its LGBT+ cast, and whether or not it matters, than for its gameplay.

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